Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Becca, Brandon and I arrived in Lima late last night.
Today I am going to Love and Learn to get ready for Cheo.
I will be working with my Mom and sister, Jess.
We'll have fun.

22 comments:

Israel said...

Her blog is not a Ramirez bashing blog, it's a Arizona and Tucson bashing blog, which prompted an Ohio and Republican bashing response and then a Democrat bashing retaliation.

Hope that clears things up...

Sharla said...

We were all enjoying this blog immensely. Zion’s co-worker, Sandy, came into the store one day last week specifically to inquire how all of you were doing out in AZ. For the first time I actually remembered to give someone this blog address. I had never met Sandy before. She told me she thought Zion was very special and she also said that he had told her that he was really lucky to have married you. I printed off your blog up to that time and handed it to her. We laughed about some of the mishaps you had been describing. She said she was glad to get it so she could read the whole thing and since it printed the address she could go back and check on how things were going later. I must say, I hope she never went back.

Your sister-in-law airing her dirty laundry on your site is so embarrassing. But Jeshanah, it is embarrassing to her, not to you. I don’t know why they felt compelled to hijack your blog. You are not writing to them. They are right there. You didn’t write to us when you were right here! They obviously don’t understand anything about you. You have the ability to see the funny side of everyday trials. You can also laugh at yourself and never take yourself too seriously. You know that everyone East of the Mississippi who knows you adores you and thinks you are a joy to be around. I am sorry about this trial that you are going through with your sister-in-law. I know that this is really the first thing about AZ that you consider an actual trial. Being completely misunderstood wounds your soul, especially by someone you already thought of as a friend. Plumbing problems and cars breaking down are really just something to laugh about.

Jeshanah, please just continue on with your blog just as you were before. No more boring though inoffensive posts. So many people from church are already reading this as well as co-workers from Lowe’s and Holiday Inn and Sam’s. Also Aunt Barb and Kristi and Tamah and everybody. All of us ignorant white folk back in Ohio (and Indiana) find this stuff real entertaining. Hi, Israel ;)

Truthfully, we enjoy reading your take on all the silly little things that come your way. It makes it seem like you are not so far from us. What Rebecca doesn’t understand is that while you are here you do the same thing. That is why we heard endless stories of woe about your trailer. I guess we could have taken great offence and said “We remodeled that trailer. We painted and repaired that trailer. You are putting us down.” That would be silly. You were just being you. You make us all laugh. We think you are great just the way you are. You don’t whine and complain anymore than Israel does, and he is smart and rich!

Speaking of which, we also derive great pleasure from reading the good natured sparring between Israel and John. Of course, John is whipping Israel’s backside, but it is still a great read! How ya doin’ Israel? ;)

It is absolutely ridiculous to refer to this as a Ramirez bashing blog. You are a Ramirez. Zion is a Ramirez. And we all feel like we are a part of the Ramirez family. What are they talking about?

Danny Joe said...

Yes! Pluuueeeeesse! be yourself again! The silent treatment is working! We cant take it anymore! Pout! Whine! do whatever you want! Having to read Israel and John endlessly rant is difficult enough...and Fantasy Football hasn't even started! WE LOVE YOU!
I think youre great Jeshanah, best thing that ever happened to Zion.honestly. :)

Hully said...

Danny,

Sorry about the ranting.


I did laundry today.

Israel said...

OOOOPSS!!

Hi ignorant White folks from Ohio!

I didn't know complete strangers were reading this stuff!

I'd better tone it down!

I didn't do laundry today...

P.S. Are there any sports teams in Lima called the Beans? Because if there are, that would be really funny.

Did you folks know that if Zion and Jeshanah have kids they'll be Beaner Babies?

At least if they have them in Arizona they won't be Lima Beaners...

OOPS, there I go again, being offensive.

Israel said...

See Zion all you Republicans can talk about is stuff like abortion, homersexuals, illegal aliens and flag burning and how English should be the Country's official language.

Please tell me how two homersexuals getting "married" will affect your life in any way. (Righteous indignation doesn't count.)

Tell me how the government should be able to control a rape victim's right to an abortion or stop a woman from having an abortion that is medically necessary to save her life. (Not the government's role.)

Tell me who is gonna pick the lettuce if all the illegal aliens disappear tomorrow.

Meanwhile the Republicans are trying to set civil rights back 50 years and they are selling America to the highest corporate bidder.

Yet you guys keep fixating on these issues that will never be satisfactorally resolved.

You think homosexuals will go extinct if gay marraige is banned? (Nope.)

You think abortion will disappear if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade? (Nope)

Think flag burning is the greatest evil facing our great country? (Nope.)

Think Spanish-Speaking illegal aliens will stay away because we waste a bunch of money on a wall?

(Nope.)

This stuff is just political cannon-fodder so morons can keep pulling the lever on the voting booth while Republicans rob us blind.

P.S. Sharla I can kick John's political rear end with half my brain tied behind my back. (I stole that line from that drug addict Rush Limbaugh.) I'm just going easy on John because he has bronchitis or walking pnemonia or something.

Jeshanah said...

Israel, yes, there actuall ARE teams called the Lima Beans. (My bro. Jariah was on the beans basketball team when we were homeschooled. I was a Cheerleader for the team! Go Beans, GO!!!)

Israel said...

You were homeschooled, huh? That explains why you can actually write...

You should be able to do well at either Pima or the U of A.

Hully said...

Israel,

One thing I would like to address briefly is your assumption that I have lived a sheltered life, completely excluded from any form of diversity in race, orientation or thought. Like more of your assumptions about me, this one is wrong.

Last summer, when I lived in Washington D.C. for 11 weeks, my roommate was a homosexual Asian from Canada. Needless to say, we didn't have a lot on common. But we did enjoy numerous discussions on politics, religion, and skin care late into the night.

The class I took in D.C. was Interest Groups and Immigration. Michele Waslin, the director of Immigration Policy Research for the National Council of La Raza, was the instructor.

I was the only conservative in a group of seven interns where I worked. In fact, one girl was always asking me questions about my stance on various issues because she had never met a conservative. She told me one time, "You're more of a moderate than a conservative." I told her that it just seemed that way because in her sheltered little liberal world, conservatives were all thought of as cross-burning, homo-hating, planet-polluting, war-mongers.

At Northern, one of my best friends was an international student from Saudi Arabia via Pakistan. I often picked his brain about things like the war on terror, Bush, and the U.S. media. (He said the reason the terrorists hate America has nothing to do with military bases in the Mideast or jealousy of our freedoms or prosperity and everything to do with our support of Israel.) He also once told me I was the only friend he had in the U.S.

These are just a handful of examples.

You harp about Republicans casting Mexicans as evil in order to advance their immigration agenda, which I agree is wrong. Yet you continue to make prejudiced assumptions about me and other white conservatives based on stereotypes. It’s racism and hypocrisy, plain and simple.

Israel said...

I would think you would have the discernment to realize that I am not calling you a Mexican-hating racist.

I also wouldn't make those obviously stereotypical comments about sportswriters and conservatives and racing fans and people in Ohio without my tongue clearly in my cheek.

Your point is well taken, you haven't been entirely sheltered and not all Republicans are cross burners. However I do firmly believe that most cross burners and racists are Republicans and that the Republican party affirmatively tries to court votes by appealing to racism, homophobia and ignorance.

If you don't see it, then you're not just looking hard enough or being honest with yourself.

P.S. I was joking about the Heinz Ward stuff and the Steelers, if anyone got confused and didn't get the joke. Also I don't condone calling half-Mexican kids Beaner Babies, that was also a joke.

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Hully said...

I get your sense of humor. There's no need to worry about offending me. And don't take my ramblings as anything serious. I was just basking in the opportunity to dish it back out.

To quote Rodney King: "Can't we all just get along?" ;-)

Israel said...

Getting along is so boring adn if you just wanna get along with people you've picked the wrong profession.

The practice of law is all about fighting about anything and everything. That's what makes it fun.

Israel said...

We're going to San Francisco for a week of vacation / National Employment Lawyer's Association conference.

If I see any gay people trying to get married I'll make a citizen's arrest. If I see what appears to be a heterosexual couple getting married I'll go check their DNA to see if one of them is a transvestite or has had a sex change.

Maybe I'd just better arrest everyone just to make sure...

My heterosexual, single black female friend from LA sent me an news article entitled marraige is for white people. Here's an excerpt:

"Marriage is for white people."

That's what one of my students told me some years back when I taught a career exploration class for sixth-graders at an elementary school in Southeast Washington. I was pleasantly surprised when the boys in the class stated that being a good father was a very important goal to them, more meaningful than making money or having a fancy title.

"That's wonderful!" I told my class. "I think I'll invite some couples in to talk about being married and rearing children."

"Oh, no," objected one student. "We're not interested in the part about marriage. Only about how to be good fathers."

And that's when the other boy chimed in, speaking as if the words left a nasty taste in his mouth: "Marriage is for white people."

He's right. At least statistically. The marriage rate for African Americans has been dropping since the 1960s, and today, we have the lowest marriage rate of any racial group in the United States. In 2001, according to the U.S. Census, 43.3 percent of black men and 41.9 percent of black women in America had never been married, in contrast to 27.4 percent and 20.7 percent respectively for whites. African American women are the least likely in our society to marry. In the period between 1970 and 2001, the overall marriage rate in the United States declined by 17 percent; but for blacks, it fell by 34 percent. Such statistics have caused Howard University relationship therapist Audrey Chapman to point out that African Americans are the most uncoupled people in the country.

That article inspired me to write the following interesting and somewhat articles that we will be
reading in the future:

1) Washington Post Dec. 13, 2020

"Marraige is for Gay people"

A recent poll showed that the only people who are still interested in entering into the holy bonds of
matrimony are gay people. "It's really kinky, especially that whole monogamy thing! I'm marrying the
reanimated corpse of Liberace next week!" declared U.S. President, Barney Frank while personally
presiding over the marraige of Tinky Winky and Sponge Bob Square Pants.

2) New York Times July 5, 2035

"Marraige is for Pet Lovers"

The debate over whether Gay pet owners should stay married for the sake of their pets continued to rage
in the Senate for a fifth straight day. Senator Rosie O'Donnell and Vice President Stedman Winfrey came to blows during one particularly heated exchange on the Senate Floor. "What about fish?" Stedman screamed
while holding a hunk of O'Donnell's hair. "Doesn't anybody care about visitation rights for fish."

3) San Francisco Chronicle- September 23, 2040

"Gay Marraige Re-Abolished"

Throngs of gay people cheered as President Ellen Degeneres signed the bill re-abolishing Gay marraige.
"Gay marraige was just taking too big of a toll on the arts. Creativity plummeted and Gay people were no longer truly Gay and fabulous. They were just walking
around like zombies. It just had to stop!"

4) "Marraige is for people who "really love" their household pets"

Los Angeles Times June 30, 2054

"Fifi and I share a truly pure, unconditional love," said Leroy Sanchez as he held his cocker spaniel Fifi on his lap. "It's about time this country put those
archaic notions of marraige to rest and allowed us to marry, right Fifi?"

"Bark!" Fifi Sanchez adamently replied, "Bark, bark,
bark!"

5) Tucson Citizen April 18, 2056

"The Supreme Court Rules That Marraige is for Homosexual Canines, even Black ones"

Chief Justice Vanilla Ice announced that the court had unananimously ruled that the law establishing, the
right of Black Gay Canines to marry was constitutional. "Yo! Marraige is da bomb, Yo! Just cuz your dog is gay and happens to have black fur doesn't mean she shouldn't get to marry her girlfriend, Yo! "
Ice stated.

Israel said...

By the way, my single black female friend from L.A. really wants to get married. She is a really intelligent award-winning screenwriter and director. She is also a former actress and at 36 still drop-dead gorgeous.

I fixed her up with my rich black friend but they didn't hit it off. Her clock is ticking so if you know anyone in LA let me know.

She is so desperate that she is even considering dating white guys. She will not however date any Republicans.

Israel said...

Please join me in a year-long celebration of the 170th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo where the Mexican General Santa Ana bravely but unsuccessfully tried to stem the tide of illegal immigration by wiping out a bunch of illegal aliens including Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, John Wayne and Billy Bob Thornton.

Had he been successful the nation of Texas would have never been born and little Georgie Bush would have never been president.

A moment of silence please, for this sobering reminder of the devastating effects of failing to stop illegal aliens from crossing the border.

Israel said...

Life after the fall of the Alamo

Memorable Quotes from Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

Al Sieber, Chief of Scouts: There's two dead women there... and two little kids. They scalped them all, all four of 'em. Bounty hunters. The government down here pays 200 pesos a head for men, 100 for women and 50 for those kids. They kill any Indian and then claim they are Apache. I don't see how any man can sink so low. Must be Texans... the lowest form of white man there is.

(My question is: why are they selling men from Ohio so short? Someone should look into this.)

Israel said...

I'm gonna be gone for a week so I had to leave you a week's worth of blogs so you wouldn't miss me...

Israel said...

Thanks to the Bush Administration's monitoring of the internet and due to your tireless defense of all things Republican, the lawfirm of Wolfram & Hart has indicated their interest in setting up an interview with you.

Check out their site at

http://www.cityofangel.com/characters/wolframHart.html

Israel said...

oppps!

The last part of that url got cut off. It's:

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Israel said...

John, I have to say I was impressed by the fact that you had a gay asian roommate from Canada.

That's a three-fer -- a gay, minority and a foreigner!

However, you failed to mention if you have gay friends, if you attend WNBA games, go to Madonna concerts and plan to go to the Gay Games in Chicago?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Israel said...

OK I'm off to the Law Conference folks to meet with like-minded employment lawyers in San Francisco:

Our motto is: We will not rest until mentally ill, 80 year-old black, handicapped, wheelchair-bound, quadruple-amputee female, lesbian, wiccan, transvestites with learning disabilities and gender issues can take time off so their domestic partners can have sexual reassignment surgery.

Just kidding!

sorta...